noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a military rebellion/an army rebellion
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Marlborough considered leading a military rebellion against the new king.
a military/army coup
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He seized power in a military coup in 1977.
a military/army/troop convoy
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28 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military convoy.
a standing army (= a professional permanent army )
an army/naval/military etc officer
army unit
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a Russian army unit
muster...army
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In April 1185, he began to muster an army .
police/army/fire etc chief
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Los Angeles Police Chief Willie L. Williams
Salvation Army
school/army/police etc uniform
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He was still wearing his school uniform .
serve in the army/air force/navy etc
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He returned to Greece to serve in the army.
Territorial Army, the
the people’s party/army etc (= belonging to or popular with the ordinary people )
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the People’s Liberation Army
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Diana – the people’s princess
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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Aeneas came back with a large army of Etruscans in time to save the camp, and furious war raged.
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Thus the fact that the tsar possessed a large army did not mean that he could risk significant external commitments.
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Down by way of Lisburn, the town with the large army base and Northern Ireland army headquarters.
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She could do without large conscript armies to defend land frontiers and needed long-service troops who could be employed overseas for long periods.
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But although he had mustered a large army the siege went badly for him.
private
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In the 1920s, employers with private armies would open fire on striking miners.
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On 13 April 1932 he successfully carried through a measure to ban the Nazis' private armies .
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But we do have about 15, 000 to 20, 000 people heavily armed in private armies around this country.
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In the east of the country they live on fortified ranches protected by private sub-machine-gun toting armies .
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There had been gunfire, real bullets, employers with private armies of goons.
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The appeal of the private army and the provocation it offered to others were eliminated as easily as that.
regular
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The regular army has not advanced from the edge of the zone.
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The other women in the classroom, except for two in the uniforms of the regular army , wear dresses.
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The ragged guerrillas become a new regular army with housing and pensions.
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The regular army had become increasingly discontented with its role in the war over the last ten years.
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It is possible that some of Mezrag's forces continue to provide the regular army with back-up troops.
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Just seven days later, Benjamin O.. Davis was named the first black general in the regular army .
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During the eighteenth century the irregular Cossack hosts were gradually brought under control and absorbed into the regular army .
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In the first place, the creation of a regular standing army marked a qualitative change in the authority of the monarchy.
small
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She did not want a small army camping indefinitely among her flowerbeds and rose bushes.
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The Confederates, with the smaller army , had the longer line to fill.
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The war was over and it was a small peacetime army again.
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A small army of men toting machine guns stood at the gate, which slowly swung open in front of us.
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There we saw countless small armies , with their commanders and paid chieftains, all of whom were also arms dealers.
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He proposed a smaller army to be composed of better-trained and better-equipped soldiers.
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Jack said you could hide a small army in the various wardrobes around the house.
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On the one hand, temple police functioned as a small mercenary army to protect the temple precincts.
■ NOUN
chief
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Gerry de Silva was formally appointed army Chief of Staff on Oct. 23.
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Moshe Yaalon, the army chief of intelligence, told a news conference.
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In 1988 Zia was the army chief .
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Upon taking office, Chavalit, a former army chief , wooed the military to try to shore up his political power.
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Wahid considered appointing Wirahadikusumah as the new army chief .
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He recently got a boost when Mr Mubarak replaced a rival, Salah Halabi, as army chief of staff.
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Mr Kostunica's main power is in appointing the foreign and defence ministers and the army chief of staff.
commander
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The army commander in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Col.-Gen.
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Those army commanders who had still been hoping for a coup realized that all such hope was now lost.
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But swift action by army commanders brought an end to Mr Sharif's Government.
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He was succeeded as army commander by Brig.
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Liu Huaqing, a former deputy army commander .
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General Ricardo Izurieta, the moderate army commander , is now being criticised for political naivety by diehard Pinochetistas.
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A short-lived ceasefire broke down in January after army commanders demanded another chance to smash the Tigers.
officer
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A feminist might interpret a text very differently from an army officer , for example; or a teenager from his parent.
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And the army officers were dancing.
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It all culminated in a rebellion during 1881-82, led by a nationalistic army officer , Colonel Ahmed Arabi.
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In late 1995, the government filled the top command of the Federal Judicial Police with army officers .
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At the end of September 1991, arrest warrants against army officers were issued in connection with the killings.
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As of 1991 West Point graduates constituted twice the percentage of generals as they did of other army officers .
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Otley found that a rising proportion of senior army officers had elite educational backgrounds.
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The army officer turned to look.
uniform
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He prised the sealed top open and found army uniforms , with no insignia marks on them.
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Two boys one in an army uniform snarled at a conductor on the platform.
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A thin man in army uniform came in, walking with a limp.
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Amin, Wasswa said, was in army uniform .
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The Kamajor militia and other loyal forces have been put in army uniform and brought under its command.
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Rebecca West refers to a photograph of him taken at this time in army uniform as a private of the Worcestershire Regiment.
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Fairfax, who was wearing his army uniform , soon lost patience.
unit
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Fighting broke out between army units .
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Along the eastern seaboard, army units were moved from northern states into the South to prevent suspected insurrection.
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Tanks and small army units moved into position in front of key government and communications buildings in Algiers and other towns.
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In a confused situation, the demonstrators also apparently set upon army units dispatched to the radio station to arrest the mutineers.
■ VERB
include
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If your army includes up to five Trolls these form a single unit.
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Whichever race you choose, your army must always include at least one Mob of the same race.
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However, it is a very popular weapon amongst the Tileans, and the state armies of the Empire include many Tileans.
join
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Initially a conscientious objector, he joined the army in 1941 and wound up a captain in the Middle East.
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So she joins the army to be near him.
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They travel throughout the Empire, joining armies as they march to battle.
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It was a good way to see a lot of the world, without joining the army .
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Watson joined the army at 17 at the Army Apprentices College, Harrogate.
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They have joined the great army of moderns who view the land above the sacred / secular divide with scepticism.
lead
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It's time to get out there and lead the Imperial army to victory, in the name of Sigmar and Karl-Franz!
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Theseus led his army against Thebes, conquered her and forced her to allow them to be buried.
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It all culminated in a rebellion during 1881-82, led by a nationalistic army officer, Colonel Ahmed Arabi.
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He led the Confederate army during the Civil War. 10.
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In the summer of 772 he led an army into middle Saxony, and took hostages from the Engrians.
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Now leading the Elf army , Tyrion proved to be every bit as skillful a general as he was a warrior.
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Recognising his own inadequacy as a general, he appointed a succession of brilliant field commanders to lead the High Elf armies .
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He led his army round by Anderson's howff.
raise
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Pursued there and besieged, they fled by night to raise a loyal army , but found it pitiful in numbers.
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Some of the latter could if need be raise huge armies of native soldiers.
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He set about raising all army of his own to win back the lands lost in the recent campaign.
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By January he had raised an army of twenty-five thousand men and had headed north to intercept the forces of General Taylor.
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Desiderius responded to the Pope by raising an army and seizing Sinigaglia and Urbino, hitherto papal cities.
send
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Most Peloponnesians probably welcomed the excuse for not sending their main armies north; they had never wanted to.
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No military general would willingly send his army into battle untrained and ill-prepared, no matter how well-equipped.
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After 23 days, the government was threatening to send in the army to clean up the streets.
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Rabin sent in the army to haul them off.
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If you sent a great army against him, he'd simply cut it down with his sorcery.
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Six truckloads of military police were sent by the army to clear out all military personnel so they would not be involved.
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So in revenge, Zurich sent their own army to Rapperswil and destroyed the castle.
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More importantly, Emperor Henry had also agreed to send an army to help throw the Normans, once and for all, out of Apulia.
serve
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After serving in the army during the Napoleonic wars, Széchenyi turned to the management of his estates.
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He wanted to serve in the army .
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Paul Alexandre, his loyal and sympathetic supporter, left Paris to serve in the army medical service.
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He dropped out of City after a year served in the army , returned to City, and graduated in 1959.
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Service, for 18 months, was compulsory for men over 19 who had not served in the Soviet army .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
army/navy/military etc brat
regular army/troops/soldier
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Equally ambivalent were local attitudes to the wholesale billeting in Sussex of regular troops and other county militias during invasion scares.
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It is possible that some of Mezrag's forces continue to provide the regular army with back-up troops.
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The regular army had become increasingly discontented with its role in the war over the last ten years.
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The regular army has not advanced from the edge of the zone.
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The regular troops successfully ended the Great Strike within a few days.
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The other women in the classroom, except for two in the uniforms of the regular army, wear dresses.
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The ragged guerrillas become a new regular army with housing and pensions.
the Salvation Army
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In 1066 William the Conqueror raised an army and invaded England.
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My sons are both in the army .
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Rebel armies have taken control of the capital's radio station.
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Units of the Nigerian army were quickly sent to the border.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By January he had raised an army of twenty-five thousand men and had headed north to intercept the forces of General Taylor.
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In 1939 he married Angela Orred, daughter of a retired army major.
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Most armies march into new wars wearing the boots designed, too late, for the previous ones.
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Perhaps armies are the most intense evocation of this state of mind.
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The missiles were military equipment and confirmed that the army had descended into chaos.
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Timothy McVeigh and two army buddies are charged.
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Union armies were strung in a southwesterly direction through Virginia, Tennessee, and Mississippi to the river, completing the encirclement.